Atkins- can anyone explain?

I have done it on a few occasions KN,, and whilst it 'worked', I do think it is partly to do with what you say. It sort of makes you lose your appetite and I often find that I have to force myself to eat something because it gets a little dull. My rational self tells me it can't be great to fully exclude one whole food group and eat tons of fat, so I do a sort of milder version if I need to lose a bit of weight. I have a book called the New High Protein Diet which is pretty good x

Whilst it may work (and I suspect this is for the reasons you mention), I'm 100% certain it's not a healthy or sustainable way of doing things, and I hate to think of what it does to your cholesterol and your coronaries ?

Increasing protein does work, and lots of people find it the key to sucessful WL, but I wouldn't ever try Atkins or advise anyone else to tbh.

I lost about a stone on Atkins before my wedding. I found it really good actually. The only protein-only meal I'd eat was breakfast; then I'd have chicken and loads of salad for lunch and a protein and veg dinner - I got quite good at making low-carb versions of things like moussaka, shepherds' pie etc. You can also eat fruit - berries, melon etc.

I don't cook with loads of butter and cream anyway, and I didn't then.

It's not the devil's diet, I don't think. If you're sensible about it it can be quite a healthy way to eat. But I do think you're better off adopting the underlying principles that make it work - eating lots of green leafy veg, managing your blood sugar by cutting carbs, not having puddings and so on, than saying: "I'm doing Atkins".

Fairy nuff Soph. I guess like any 'diet' it's how you do it that matters. I sometimes cringe telling people I follow the WW principles - not because I'm ashamed of it, but because the stereotype seems to be folk living on Muller lights, meringues and packets of wotsits. Whilst I have been known to eat all of those things at one time or another, they bear no resemblence to my normal daily intake. I'm guessing it's the same for Atkins. I think from KNs post she was rather hoping to live on steak and cheese though ? (I apologise if I've misrepresented you KN).

Exactly. LIke with any diet, you can just be a lazy bum and expect to lose weight. Ya gotta get out there and exercise. Anyways, I've been on the atkins and I love it. I eat foods like peanut butter or caviar all day long

I've done it before and what I did find was that your appetite diminishes so you don't actually want to eat loads! I also ended up eating a lot more veg than I did before which is a good thing.

I think it seems really scary but it's not that bad if you actually write down what you're eating. Especially as you're cutting out chocolate, cakes, biscuits etc which are my big downfall.